Re: Re[2]: relays.osirusoft.com

[George William Herbert <gherbert () retro com>]

Paul wrote:
> this part, on the other hand...
>
> >                                               he's put
> > *.*.*.* in, he's asking people not to use it anymore.
>
> ...mystifies me.  anyone who has read rfc1034 or rfc1035, even
> if they did not also read rfc2181 or rfc2136 or rfc2308, knows
> that in a zone containing the following wildcardish data:
>
>       $ORIGIN example.vix.com.
>       *                       1H IN A         127.0.0.1
>       *.*                     1H IN A         127.0.0.2
>       *.*.*                   1H IN A         127.0.0.3
>       *.*.*.*                 1H IN A         127.0.0.4
>
> the result will be that only the top one will match:

I must hope and pray that nobody on NANOG would be foolish
enough to load narrative prose mailed to the list into their
BIND configurations ;-) 

BGP, now, feel free to do that all you want.


-george william herbert
gherbert () retro com